Double (Joe)- 21st

Today Joe decided that we aren't going to get the entire Jason story complete by the end of term, so we are going to create our own stories based off parts of Jason. I feel this is better because it gives us four weeks to create our own story and get a lot more ideas rolling than us trying to come up with a way to tell someone else story.

The first part of Jason we wanted to work with was the story of Cyzicus and the feints with six arms. I felt the best way to create a story from it was to do an origins story (where they came from) this way we can fabricate an entire story.

The second part we used was the sirens, and again an origin story would be good for the same reason. We were then put into two groups and my group is doing the sirens. Our initial thought is that there are women who killed their husbands, for various reasons and are cursed and bound to the sea for ever. So we discussed ideas for why they murderd their men and the best idea is that on man was an abusive husband and the other cheats on his wife. However, to thicken the plot we thought that the man who cheats actually rapes the wife being abused as this will end the need for a third woman to be the cheatie and builds a relationship between the four characters. I like this story as it an entertaining story but also lies a little message for the year sevens (our audience) to treat their partners right and with respect.

We first thought that I can narrate what is happening, giving us our first story telling technique, and then the others could perform through movement, the different stories, giving us our second story telling technique. We also developed another movement piece, which shows me sort of controlling the men in what they are doing, so we convey that I am not just the narrator I am also a character in the story with some power.